Posted on 12/26/2019 12:23:57 PM PST by MAGAlady
Earlier this year, disgraced Virginia Governor Ralph Northam tried pushing through his state’s assembly some of the strictest gun control policies ever introduced in the Commonwealth. The measures inevitably failed but Democrats gained a small majority in both chambers in November. The first task? Resurrect these dead bills. Now Virginia is facing two fresh laws; the banning of semi-automatic rifles as well as a registry of those already owned.
The new legislation is being introduced as gun confiscatory laws since they do not grandfather in existing firearms that would be banned and make current gun owners felons facing up to five years in prison.
Gun owners across the state and country are concerned that the registry will be used for future gun confiscations and that restricting access to certain rifles is no more than a power grab as these firearms are rarely used in crimes. Gov. Northam and Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring are confirming these suspicions by reallocating a substantial hunk of the budget to prepare for residents not willing to comply.
The proposed $250,000 is for a special correctional department fund to “increase in the operating cost of adult correctional facilities resulting from the [gun law] enactment.” Not only are Virginians going to see their gun rights restricted, but they’ll be paying for it, too.
Governor Northam is still only floating the idea of a gun buyback program, a racket where the government buys your guns with your money much lower than market value.
Over the last six weeks, more than 100 Virginia townships and localities have passed resolutions declaring themselves as Second Amendment Sanctuaries as pro-gun activists hold rallies across the state. Most of these resolutions include wording that they will refuse the state the right to assign their revenue to pay for the unconstitutional infringements on Virginians’ right to bear arms.
Pro-gun rally outside VA Capitol Nov. 4th/Youtube Herring has warned that the state is king and localities opposing the new gun restrictions will be faced with statist force to comply. Democratic House Delegate Lee Carter has introduced a bill which makes any law enforcement officer that specifically refuses to enforce Virginia’s strict gun laws open to immediate termination.
Following Carter’s example, a Richmond Delegate, Donald McEachin is calling for Governor Northam to use the National Guard to enforce these laws if the local governments still refuse as well as cut their funding. Speaking to Newsweek, he says:
“[T]he governor may have to nationalize the National Guard to enforce the law. That’s his call, because I don’t know how serious these counties are and how severe the violations of law will be. But that’s obviously an option he has…
They certainly risk funding, because if the sheriff’s department is not going to enforce the law, they’re going to lose money.”
And those aren’t even the craziest of suggestions. Police Chief RaShall Brackney from Charlottesville called for a ban on all weapons in a judicial committee meeting.
Michael Hammond, a legal councilor for Gun Owners of America is helping to craft legislation “that would prohibit the governor from declaring martial law for the purpose of confiscating guns through the National Guard.”
A Culpeper County Sheriff is also taking on the gun restrictions by declaring he will personally deputize thousands of residents in order to bypass these limitations. While Sheriff Jenkins did note that he is trying everything within his power to legally oppose the potential gun grab, he did tell Fox & Friends:
“[Residents] will be properly vetted through a normal process. Everything from normal background checks that we do for other deputy sheriffs as well as psych evaluations… It’s not just a blanket policy of swearing-in anyone who is interested.”
It also means that the residents that take advantage will be required to complete at least 8 hours of volunteer work a month.
On Capitol Hill, Democrats are excited about Virginia’s authoritarian wet dream. Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA) told the Washington Examiner he hopes the local county police who are refusing to enforce these gun control measures resign or, “they [will be] prosecuted for failure to fulfill their oath.” Then he went on to say:
“The law is the law. If that becomes the law, you don’t have a choice, not if you’re a sworn officer of the law.”
The “law is the law” argument falls flat considering Democratic lawmakers in Virginia have simultaneously been pushing immigrations bills that would see tuition lowered for the “undocumented” aliens as well as give them driver licenses.
Image result for virginia state seal Virginia’s state motto “sic semper tyrannis” (thus ever unto tyrants) once represented victory over tyranny. The irony is tragic.
I realize that. I’m hoping he’s also here. Not impossible.
Butterfly, you Virginians must learn to help yourselves.
I’m not a Virginia and I look at this issue as an extremely powerful weapon to totally smash the demof*s at every level in November.
“Civil Wars don’t start when a few guys hunt down a specific bastard. Civil Wars start when many guys hunt down the nearest bastards.” – An American
It is a ‘Right’, exercise it.........
Lex Talionis! The public cane, Stocks, Gibbet, and Gallows..........MAGA
When justice is done, it brings joy to the righteous but terror to evildoers.
Proverbs 21:15
The Virginian democrats are acting fascistic-ally.
>>Democratic House Delegate Lee Carter has introduced a bill which makes any law enforcement officer that specifically refuses to enforce Virginia’s strict gun laws open to immediate termination.
And anybody that chooses to try to enforce unconstitutional law is likely to open to immediate “termination”.
That’s very true.
Hardly. What can President Trump do regarding the crazy legislators and Gov of Virginia?
Heller, Caetano v Massachusetts
It is settled that the Second Amendment protects an
individual right to keep and bear arms that applies
against both the Federal Government and the States.
District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U. S. 570 (2008);
McDonald v. Chicago, 561 U. S. 742 (2010).
McDonald v. City of Chicago, case in which on June 28, 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled (5–4) that the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which guarantees “the right of the people to keep and bear Arms,” applies to state and local governments as well as to the federal government.
We found the argument “that only those arms in existence in the 18th century are protected by the Second Amendment” not merely wrong, but “bordering on the frivolous.”
Instead, we held that “the Second Amendment extends,
prima facie, to all instruments that constitute bearable
arms, even those that were not in existence at the time of
the founding.”
Heller defined the “Arms” covered by the Second Amendment to include “‘any thing that a man wears for his defence, or takes into his hands, or useth in wrath to cast at or strike another.’”
If Heller tells us anything, it is that firearms cannot be
categorically prohibited just because they are dangerous.
I envision much treachery from the gun owners wives that are just trying to be 'good citizens' by obeying the law. Nasty situation.
Your link to
Heydrich was
An xlnt read.
Thanks.
It’s geography VS population. I’m guessing 60% of VA. population live in the few counties of NOVA around DC and Richmond. Not a lot of votes in national forests, farmland and mountain valleys.
You’re welcome
Yes!
I care about Virginia but I also care about all Americans. I strongly believe Trump is the perfect President to take on Virginia on this issue — by publicly challenging them to renounce their evil intentions (which of course they won’t do) — and demonstrating to wishy-washy good people all over our country the utter and complete folly of ever failing to vote R again. Ever.
Whenever, wherever, the dems win, America and Americans and the Constitution all lose. I think this is the perfect place for Trump to begin what I hope is his goal in 2020: to crush the dems in as many races as humanly possible.
That makes sense. And liberals have inviaded those northern cities unfortunately. We thought about moving moving to Virginia or North Carolina. Ended up in Tennessee because both of those states are headed the wrong way voting-wise. With their big cities growing and out voting the rest. Not sure why that’s not happening in Tennessee. We probably just don’t have enough big cities.
I’d agree with you, but Barr is something of a gun-grabber; IIRC he defended Lon Horiuchi after the dude blew Randy Weaver’s wife’s head off while she was holding her baby in her arms.
No what Trump needs to do is declare ALL Democraps are Domestic Enemies of the state....because they are.
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